Shootings spark fear in West Augustine

Three separate shootings Sunday and early Monday in West Augustine left one man wounded, bullet holes in two homes and local lawmen puzzling over the cause and connection of the incidents.

The fireworks began at 9:20 p.m. Sunday in the 200 block of S. Woodlawn Street, St. Johns County Sheriff's Office reports said.

Someone called deputies to report a fight in the parking lot of Woodlawn Terrace. Witnesses said the younger of two men, ages 20 and 25, pulled a gun and hit the older man in the head with it.

The two then ran toward West King Street with the younger man reportedly firing "numerous rounds" at the older man, reports said.

They ran toward Christopher Street and through a yard to Aiken Street. But deputies could not locate either man.

The second shooting occurred only blocks away, in the 1100 block of N. St. Johns Street just before midnight Sunday.

According to reports, a 31-year-old man and two women were visiting a woman on that street. The victim was sitting in his 1999 Mercedes with the windows rolled up when another man pulled up in a 1975 blue Chevrolet.

He opened fire and hit the victim in the jaw and right bicep. The assailant drove away, but the two men knew each other, reports said.